Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced: Unchecked & Unbalanced - Rilegato

Crenson, Matthew; Ginsberg, Benjamin

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0393064883 ISBN 13: 9780393064889

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2007

Riassunto

A history and evaluation of the "imperial presidency" in America argues that presidents from the last thirty years have increased the power of their station at the expense of democracy, in an account that expands its coverage beyond foreign policy practices to reveal less-realized means through which the executive branch's power has been institutionalized.

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Recent presidents have exploited the power of the American presidency more fully than their predecessors-and with greater consequence than the framers of the Constitution anticipated. This book, in the tradition of Arthur Schlesinger's great work The Imperial Presidency (1973), explores how American presidents-especially those of the past three decades-have increased the power of the presidency at the expense of democracy. Matthew Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg provide a fascinating history of this trend, showing that the expansion of presidential power dates back over one hundred years. Presidential Power also looks beyond the president's actions in the realm of foreign policy to consider other, more hidden, means that presidents have used to institutionalize the power of the executive branch.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0393064883
• ISBN 13: 9780393064889
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 432
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile